The Code of Rights
A Review on Regulation by Design in the Public Sector, from Information Design to Legal Design
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https://doi.org/10.82068/pgjournal.2025.22.41.07Keywords:
Information Design, Regulation by Design, Legal Design, Istitutional Design, Public SectorAbstract
Observing the state of Western democracies, trust in institutions is not growing proportionally, and low civic participation indicates a crisis of representation. When called upon, design can contribute to the empowerment of active citizenship and public administration, participating in the definition of artefacts that express norms, rights, and services. Especially in the digital context, design becomes regulative, affecting law-making and decision-making processes by means of its choices of representation and user experience. Through an international retrospective – including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, France, and Italy – this paper investigates codes and languages, from institutional design to information design and legal design, to verify the contemporary potential of design for public interest.
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